[1] Agamedes was father of Cercyon by Epicaste, who also brought to him a stepson, Trophonius, who was by some believed to be a son of Apollo.
[3] A tradition mentioned by Pindar states that Agamedes and Trophonius, after having built this temple, prayed to the god to grant them in reward for their labor what was best for men.
[5] This may connect to the saying of Menander that “those whom the gods love die young.”[6] They also built a treasury of Hyrieus, king of Hyria in Boeotia.
The scholiast on Aristophanes gives a somewhat different account from Charax of Pergamum,[7] and makes them build the treasury for King Augeas.
[9] The question as to whether the story about the Egyptian treasury is derived from Greece, or whether the Greek story was an importation from Egypt, has been answered by modern scholars in both ways; but Müller has rendered it very probable that the tradition took its rise among the Minyans, was transferred from them to Augeas, and was known in Greece long before the reign of Psammetichus I, during which the intercourse between the two countries was opened.